The Benefits of Multi-Zone Floor Heating

As energy prices rise, assessing your home’s heating system to ensure it is running at its most efficient is a great way to reduce costs. In this guide, we’ll discover the many benefits of creating a ‘multi-zone’ floor heating system in a property – a smarter method of heating that can cut your energy bills whilst reducing carbon emissions. You’ll learn:

• What multi-zone heating means
• How an underfloor heating system provides zoned heat control
• How a zoned heating solution improves heating performance
• The best multi-zone thermostats for your home
• How to purchase and install a multi-zone UFH system

Simply put, multi-zone heating means separating your home’s heating system into different ‘zones’ which will allow you to heat specific areas of a property independently. For instance, treating your living room and kitchen as one zone, your bedrooms as a second zone and your bathrooms as a third zone. So, if you’re looking at saving money on your heating bills in the winter months, you could warm the main living area of the home to your preferred temperature whilst keeping the current unused areas such as the bedroom, cooler.

Using a Warmup heating controller with a floor heating system will provide this kind of precision zoned heat; improving your home’s comfort levels and sustainability whilst reducing the costs of your utility bills.

Floor heating provides a multi-zone heating approach by design. You can install an electric underfloor heater in just one room of your home to work alongside an existing heating system or install multiple electric systems throughout a property. This means the heater can be treated as a separate ‘zone’ which can be independently operated via use of its zone-specific UFH thermostat.

With the ability to heat different areas of your home in isolation from each other, zoned floor heating systems offer you a simple way to cut down your energy use. Overheating a space, or heating an unoccupied space, can not only create an uncomfortable house but it will also waste energy and result in increased heating bills. Floor heating is a more energy-efficient heating method than more traditional options. Radiant floor heaters utilize radiant heat technology to warm the objects and people in a space directly – a process which requires less energy to reach ideal comfort levels. With this increased efficiency, you can reduce both the carbon footprint and running costs of your home.

Energy usage in buildings accounts for a large proportion of global C02 emissions, so by making our homes more efficient by using cleaner, smarter energy solutions, we can help prevent further damage to our environment. Interested in the cost-savings of floor heating? Read our expert article to discover everything you need to know.

To control the multiple zones of an electric floor heating system, a Warmup thermostat will provide accurate zone control.

The 6iE Smart Wi-Fi Thermostat is our latest innovation in floor heating control. It features a clear touchscreen to intuitively set up personalized heating programs whilst also providing automatic heat functionality – allowing you to enjoy truly bespoke temperature regulation for each heating zone. The Terra Wi-Fi Thermostat, meanwhile, has been designed with simplicity in mind. It brings energy-efficient control to all Warmup floor heaters and its unobtrusive design will suit all home interiors.

Using Warmup’s MyHeating Smartphone App alongside your thermostat allows you to control your heating system from wherever you are and can help improve the system’s efficiency. MyHeating utilizes our unique SmartGeo technology to automatically set the most efficient temperatures for your home, helping to reduce energy usage by up to 25%. If you’re installing a floor heating system in a large project, you can also group your thermostats together using a Building Management System.

You can find out how much a multi-zone underfloor heating system will cost for your home by getting instant pricing using our simple online form. Just enter the details of your project and we’ll let you know the best heating system for your needs and tell you exactly how much it will cost. As discussed, you can buy a floor heater for just one zone in your property to work alongside your existing heating system or purchase a complete multi-zone floor heating system to bring radiant warmth to your whole house.

The cost of installing a multi-zone heating system will vary depending on the specifications of your project and where you are located. If you’re looking for a heating system to use in just one zone, many of our electric systems can be installed in under a day whilst installing a larger, multi-zone system will take longer and therefore cost more.

All Warmup zoned heating systems come with market-leading warranties for your peace of mind and we offer 24/7 customer support, too. Use our Dealer Locator to find your nearest Warmup stockist and purchase an energy-saving, multi-zone heating system today. Want to see how it works? Visit our YouTube channel to watch detailed installation guides and product overviews for every room in your home — from bathrooms to living rooms and more.